Close Ups of Our Members 

        Emery Nagy holds three degrees from Indiana University: Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Music Education, and Masters of Science in Education. He played in the Indiana University Orchestra and also taught trumpet as a graduate assistant.

Emery taught band for five years in Illinois. He moved to Evansville and continued teaching bands and orchestras in the middle and high schools for thirty five years. He gave private lessons on trumpet. The Evansville Philharmonic has a chair established in memory of Emery and Everett Northcut - two private trumpet teachers in Evansville.

Emery played in the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, the Evansville Community Band, various dance bands and pit ensembles for Broadway Shows and Circuses. In addition to playing in the community band, he also plays with The Entertainers.


        Pat Nagy is a Graduate of Indiana University with a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education.  She also has a Master's Degree from University of Evansville.  Pat played in the IU Orchestra and the IU Marching Hundred.   

She taught band and orchestra at Sheridan, Indiana and Ellettsville, IN.  During her early teaching career, she gave private lessons on trumpet and piano.  After her four children were in school, Pat went back to teaching vocal music in the Middle and Junior High Schools in Evansville, Indiana.

  
        Ted Carlson plays trumpet with the community band.  He graduated from California State University, Fresno and taught for 36 years in elementary schools in Calfornia.  During that time, he played trumpet with the West Hills College Jazz Band, the Valley Echoes Dance Orchestra and the Red River Dutchmen dance band.   

In 2000, Ted and his wife, Margaret, moved to Crossville,TN.  He soon became active in several music groups.  He attended the founding meeting of the Cumberland County Community Band.  Ted is also a member of the trumpet section of the Big Band Sound Orchestra which performs monthly at the Fairfield Glade Golf Resort. 
   

Phyllis Hubbard graduated from East Tennessee State University with a degree in music.  While there, she played first clarinet in the concert band, piccolo in the marching band, and second flute in the orchestra.   

While in Michigan, she played in the Grosse Pointe Symphony and Farmington Community Band. While her kids were in school, Phyllis helped with the clarinet and flute sections of the high school band working with individual students.  

After 43 years in Michigan where she worked as a systems engineer with IBM, she returned to Tennessee.  Currently, Phyllis has found the dulcimer.  She is having great fun playing clarinet in the Cumberland County Community Band and two other groups when she is in town. 


         Norman Renaud plays alto and baritone saxophone in the community band.  He played for four years in both his high school orchestra and band at the St. Johnbury Academy in Vermont.  During this time he also formed a combo and performed at many school and local functions.  Norman was selected to play in the All State Orchestra in his last three years of school.  

After fullfilling his military obligations in the U.S. Army, Norman became a golf professional.  He became a member of the PGA in 1964 and is now a retired life member of that organization. 

In 1990, Norman's father, Bob Renaud, and Dr. Joe Roberston formed a dance band in Crossville, TN. called the Big Band Beat.  Norman played in this band until he moved overseas in 1993.  In 2001, he returned to Cumberland County and is happy to be part of the Cumberland County Community Band.


        Bruce and Karen Gallant.  Bruce began playing tuba in junior high school.  He later played with the award winning, Pasadena High School band and also served as the band's equipment manager.

Bruce went on to play at Pasadena City College, which was the Official Tournament of Roses Band.  He marched in the Rose Parade once with the Pasadena High School Band and three times with the Pasadena City College Band.

He met his wife, Karen, who was a member of the band's flag line and they have "banded together" ever since.  After a "break" of 17 years, Bruce and daughter, Nancy, played in the Anaheim Community Band for 10 years.

Bruce and Karen were part of the formation committee for the Placentia Community Concert Band in their hometown during the summer of 2000.  The band has successfully grown to a current ensemble of nearly 100 musicians.

Bruce and Karen moved from Southern California to Fairfield Glade, TN. in April 2004 where a new home was built and completed in January 2005.   Their second priority was a new home with the Cumberland County Community Band, which they found in May 2004.  Bruce is once again playing his tuba, affectionately named "Bud."   

Karen is the music librarian for the Community Band.  She keeps our music files in order and supplies each musician with a folder of the current music.
 

         Dick Buxbaum began his musical career when he received a band scholarship to the all-scholarship band of the Valley Forge Military Academy.  His music had to take a back seat to his career in hospital administration until he took up the clarinet 45 years later with teacher, Dan Hearn at Tenn. Tech.

Having resumed playing clarinet, Dick plays with the Cumberland County Community Band and also with the Chautauqua Community Band at the Chautauqua Institution in western NY.  He has been a member of the Windjammers International Band and the bands of the adult band camps at Edinboro Univ. of Pa. and Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. Dick plays with the Lakesiders Dixieland Band at Chautauqua and founded Classy Clarinets, a clarinet ensemble based in Crossville.
 

        Carolyn Clark lives in the Homesteads area of Cumberland County.  As a student, she played percussion for a year and baritone for six years in her elementary and high school bands.  Later, she studied guitar, organ and piano.  Carolyn also sang with the Cumberland County Community Chorus.

She and her granddaughter joined the Babahatchie Community Band in Harriman TN. in 1996.  She currently plays baritone in that band.

Carolyn joined the Cumberland County Community Band in 2001.  To fit the varying needs of the music, she plays either trumpet or baritone to help balance the sound of the brass section.  
 

         Carol Hansen plays saxophone in the community band.  In her youth, Carol played in the Henry Ford Community College Jazz Band and in the horn sections of disco bands.  She can also play guitar, keyboards and drums.  In her church, she often plays flute.  Carol has been a song writer all her life and is looking forward to being published.

Carol received a degree in Architecture at Henry Ford College and has spent the last twenty five years doing design and estimating work in the construction business.
  

         Dick Braun plays flute with the Community Band.  Dick started flute lessons at age 9, and for the last two years of high school studied with the principal flutist of the St. Louis Symphony. He played in band and orchestra throughout high school and college (along with singing in college choir and men"s glee club). He married a fellow-flutist of the college orchestra, and with few gaps, they played flute duets ever since (including during 21 years in West Africa). Dick says he is delighted to have new challenges in the Cumberland County Community Band.
 
  
         Bob Bullock played clarinet in the 15th Air Force Band for a year while stationed at March Air Force Base in Calif.  He was then shipped overseas to the 3rd Air Force Band and was stationed in England from 1960 -1964.

Later, in 1976, Bob joined the Huntington Beach Community Concert Band in Huntington Beach California where he played for two years.  Bob now plays in the clarinet section of the community band here in Crossville.     

         
        William Boyd is one of our newest French horn players. He comes to us from Monterey, TN.  Bill is a former band director and has taught privately for more than 20 years.  Bill played French horn in the Tampa Bay Symphony and also in the Sarasota Concert Band.  

        
         Jim Otter has played clarinet in the community band since 2006.  He began in music by participating for three years in his high school choir in Toronto, Canada in the mid 1950's.  Later, he began private clarinet lessons using a Buffet instrument. 

Jim married and put his clarinet aside and began a career in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.  He achieved his PhD. degree in Chemistry while studying at night school.  Jim has eight patents to his credit in the automotive, building applications and HVAC fields. 

Jim moved to Fairfield Glade and studied the oboe for several years.  He switched back to his Buffet clarinet which he now plays in the band. He also has aquired an 80 year-old Selmer Signet clarinet.  Jim enjoys playing in the band and says he's working on "coming up to speed" on his instrument.

 
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